Garden Blog - Top Tropicals

🍴 Canistel custard toast: quick n fun exotic recipes

• 🟡Mash Canistel (Eggfruit) with a bit of cream and cinnamon, spread on toast, and broil until golden.
• 🟡Like dessert for breakfast!

🛒 Plant your own Canistel tree

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🐓 Baby bird first flight caught on video - ending left us stunned!

Greenhouse nest story - surprise ending you have to see!

❓ Does anyone know the name of this Florida bird? 🐦‍⬛️

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💄 Free natural shampoo: squeeze it and see what comes out!

• 💄Pine Cone Ginger (Zingiber Zerumbet), is called Shampoo Ginger due to its unique, milky substance found in the cones. If you squeeze these bright red cones, a fragrant, milky liquid seeps out - traditionally used in Asia and Hawaii as a natural shampoo. Even today, you’ll find it in commercial shampoos.
• 💄 But there's more to it than hair care. All parts of the plant carry a spicy fragrance, the cones make striking, long-lasting cut flowers, and the whole plant adds a tropical vibe to your garden.
• 💄 And here's a fun history twist: Pine Cone Ginger is a "canoe plant", carried across the Pacific by ancient Polynesian voyagers. Imagine - this little shampoo factory traveled the ocean in canoes centuries ago!

Would you try washing your hair with this tropical ginger?

🛒 Grow your own Natural Shampoo Ginger

📚 Learn more:

• 🟡 What Ginger makes a natural shampoo?
• 🟡5 most spectacular Ginger species

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👽 What kind of animal do you think it is?

A fox?
A dog?
An Alien?

🐈📸 This is Pelmen - our friend, hairless Sphynx cat!
He does look like an alien!

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👽 What kind of animal do you think it is?

A fox?
A dog?
An Alien?

🐈📸 This is Pelmen - our friend, hairless Sphynx cat!
He does look like an alien!

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⛔️ What is Akee - Jamaica's National Fruit - and how to grow it

🛒 Plant your own Akee (Achee) tree

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⛔️ Banned Jamaican fruit: why you never see fresh Akee in U.S. stores?

Did you know that fresh Akee (Blighia sapida) is restricted for import into the U.S.?
That's the bad news.
The good news: you can grow your own Akee tree and enjoy this famous fruit right in your backyard!

The reason it's restricted is because unripe Akee (Ackee) contains toxins. Only when the pods split open naturally is the fruit safe to eat, after cooking" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" > (video). That’s why it's hard to import fresh – but easy to grow and handle at home once you know the trick.

Plenty of people love this fruit (it's actually a vegetable). It's the national fruit of Jamaica, and a must-have in the classic dish Akee and saltfish. Planting your own tree means you never have to miss out.

⛔️ Why grow Akee?

• ✔️Fresh fruit that you simply can’t buy in U.S. stores.
• ✔️You decide when it's ripe and safe, straight from the pod.
• ✔️A taste of Jamaica in your own garden - both food and culture in one tree.

So don't wait for the fruit that never arrives at the port. Plant your own Akee tree and enjoy the harvest tomorrow!

🛒 Plant your own Akee (Achee) tree

📚 Learn more:

• 📱 What" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" > is Akee - Jamaica's National Fruit - and how to grow it

▫️New Christmas ornaments? Ackee monster fruit!

• ▫️Akee deliciousness
• ▫️What is number one tree-grown vegetable
• ▫️Grow Your Own Food: Akee

📱 How" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" > to cook perfect Akee

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🍴 Jackfruit curry quickie: quick n fun exotic recipes

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  🟡Saute young Jackfruit chunks with coconut milk, curry paste, and ginger.
• 🟡Tastes like pulled chicken curry, but totally plant-based!

🛒 Shop Jackfruit varieties

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🐶 Which dog would you take home: golden, black or chocolate?

"Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later." - Mary Bly

🐈📸 Sunshine (golden), Draco(chocolate) and Lila (black) Labrador dogs at Top Tropicals Bfarm and PeopleCats.Garden. 

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